This Week in Stacks (July 6th, 2022)

What is up you beautiful people!

Before we jump into the updates this week. Have to thank our sponsor, The Stacks Foundation. There's no better time to build then in a bear market. If you've been on the fence about finally taking the jump and learning Clarity, Now is the time.And the best place to get started is Start.stacks.org.LETS BUILD!

You know I'm here to spread the good word of Stacks. This email is for those you want to stay updated on the latest happenings in a quick, concise fashion. If audio on the go is more your jam, Listen to the podcast here.

What happened this week.

• Trust Machines hires a few new key people. Asiff Hirii has joined as an advisor, Previously working at Coinbase as COO. Manas Mohapatra also joined as legal general counsel, Manas previously worked at Twitter and the FTC.

• Console.xyz, A web3 alternative for Discord also had a big hire. David Leiberman has joined having previously co-founder Triller.

• StackerDAO Labs is officially live! The first DAO to use their service is Megapont with the MegaDAO. If you are an ape holder, you can login to the StackerDAO dashboard and get access to it.

• Stacks Degens continues on the mission bring GameFi to Bitcoin & Stacks. They now have in-game lobbies that support Lightning as a wager currency.

• MultiPass NFT Passport. This might be the biggest news of the week. The team at HeyLayer have released a new app in the app store called MultiPass. This allows you to use NFTs as event tickets, and scan QR codes for POAPS (Proof-of-participation). Search MultiPass in the App Store to check it out, and join their Discord to learn more.

• MultiSafe announces support for Magic Bridge. That means youll be able to create multi-sig wallets that can take in native BTC and have it auto-convert in xBTC on the Stacks chain. Swaps happen back and forth trustlessly.

• Finally, We got a big update from the Xverse team. They now support BNS names across the app. So you can now simply type jakeblockchain.btc into your xverse app when you want to send a few STX donation. No more copying and pasting long and cumbersome wallet addresses.

That's it for this week!I love yall!Peace,Jake